She was dry-eyed, calm, self-restrained--very grateful for the effort I promised to make; but a Spartan woman would have envied her self-possession.

It turned out that her son was dead.
You hear experiences like these almost every day.

These are the kinds of women and the kinds of men that have made the British Empire and the English race.

You needn't talk of decadence.

All their great qualities are in them here and now.